Wallace and Gromit put Wigan on the map | UK news | The Guardian Wallace and Gromit put Wigan on the map Share on Messenger Close The Lancashire town of Wigan declared victory yesterday in its battle with neighbours such as Preston to claim the "genuine" home of the cartoon characters Wallace and Gromit. Speculation over a glimpse of a Wigan A-Z streetguide in the movie, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, has been followed by a council monitoring exercise which has established that 62 West Wallaby Street, home of Wallace and Gromit , is a Wigan address. Wigan's head of tourism, Keith Bergman, said: "It's another claim to fame for the town, to go with George Orwell and our success in the Premiership." 62 West Wallaby Street | Wallace and Gromit Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia 62 West Wallaby Street Share 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, Lancashire is the home of Wallace and Gromit . Although the town is real, the address clearly is not.

In The Wrong Trousers , the pile of letters Gromit picks up while looking for birthday cards sports the postcode of WG7 7FU, although a check of the Royal Mail's Postcodes Online service [1] fails to find the corresponding West Wallaby Street address. Furthermore, Wigan postcodes begin with WN and not WG, although this could be a reference to Wallace and Gromits' names. In fact, WN7 is the postcode area for nearby Leigh. At the beginning of the feature-length film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , when Wallace and Gromit are getting into their Anti-Pesto van, Wallace is seen pressing the ignition start button. In this shot, "A-Z Wigan" can be seen on the dashboard, further proof that the duo live in the town. The street address is also mentioned in (at least) A Grand Day Out and Shopper 13 , being the return destination for both trips.

Wallace & Gromit's House in A Grand Day Out Wallace and Gromit get inventive | Television & radio | The Guardian Wallace and Gromit get inventive Nick Park's Plasticine pair star in a new BBC series on real-life inventors Wallace and Gromit present the BBC's new programme on inventions. Photograph: BBC/AARDMAN/AARDMAN Share on Messenger Close To find nothing odd going on in the basement of 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, would be disappointing. For more than 20 years, ever since A Grand Day Out, the workshop beneath the home shared by Wallace and his dog, Gromit, (and, for a while, by a sinister penguin) has been alive with invention. Now the BBC has shrunk its cameras and boom mikes to Aardman-size to produce the stars' first children's television series from inside this space. Well, no, in fact it hasn't. But the animation technology behind the series of six shows going out on BBC1 is almost as confounding.

In Aardman's Bristol studios, three intricate versions of Wallace's basement were put up this summer, alongside eight partial sections or cut-away sets, so that the animators could work concurrently on sections of episodes. While cameras filmed a scene between Wallace and a domestic robot on one set, around the corner another animator was replicating in modelling clay a series of movements being acted out by a man who repeatedly grimaced and then slid slowly under a table. This was Merlin Crossingham, Wallace and Gromit's creative director. "We hope the show lets people see it is not just inventors who think of things," Crossingham says. "After all, Wallace is only an inventor by default." This is a series made by obsessive creative types, presented by an obsessive creative type (Wallace), which aims to promote the status of the obsessive, creative, have-a-go inventor. One of the producers, Rob Baker, has found a string of astounding, real-life scientific innovations that are celebrated in live footage segments. There's a family of wind-powered plastic creatures that stalk a beach in Holland and an Israeli system for extracting breathable air from water. "To find the inventors we just read and read," says Baker. "And it does seem to be mainly men in sheds.

But we do have a woman who has invented a new sort of fridge." Regular features include Curiosity Corner and a Never Got Off the Drawing Board section. "You get the sense there are a lot of people out there who try and try again. And I like that," Baker adds. "There are lots of Wallaces." When Nick Park, Aardman supremo, watched some of the final edits last week, he said it felt like a satisfyingly old-fashioned show. According to Crossingham: "It has got to be the kind of programme Wallace would have made if the BBC had asked him." Wigan claims Wallace and Gromit as their own - Manchester Evening News What's On Wigan claims Wallace and Gromit as their own IT looks like Wigan can now add a couple of Oscar winners to its roll of honour. For it's now as official as it gets that animated duo Wallace and Gromit, fresh from glory at the Academy Awards, hark from the town. Share Get What's On updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email IT looks like Wigan can now add a couple of Oscar winners to its roll of honour.

For it's now as official as it gets that animated duo Wallace and Gromit, fresh from glory at the Academy Awards, hark from the town. Creator Nick Park has always said his cheese-loving characters live at 62 West Wallaby Street in Lancashire - but would never pin it down to one town. But now his people, faced with a mounting body of evidence spotted in the Wallace and Gromit films, have had to come clean. Aardman Animations head of communications Arthur Sheriff tells me: "We've always kept it a secret and tried to be non-specific with where they are from but it looks like we've been sussed. "I can confirm Gromit does receive a birthday card clearly addressed to Wigan in The Wrong Trousers and there is a Wigan A To Z map in The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit. Make of that what you will." It's a success for zealous Wigan Council workers, determined to claim Wallace and Gromit as their own.

Keith Bergman, head of tourism at Wigan Leisure And Culture Trust, said: "Well done to Nick Park and Steve Box on two counts - firstly for their success at the Oscars, and secondly for having the foresight to base their characters in a happening place like Wigan!" Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent Most Read Most Recent Wallace and Gromit - WOW.com Wallace and Gromit Ben Whitehead (2009, 2011–present) Theme music composer Official Site Wallace and Gromit is a British clay animation comedy series created by Nick Park of Aardman Animations . The series consists of four short films and a feature-length film. The series centres on Wallace , a good-natured, eccentric, cheese-loving inventor, along with his companion Gromit , a silent yet loyal and intelligent anthropomorphic dog. Wallace was originally voiced by veteran actor Peter Sallis , but as of 2011, this role has been passed on to Ben Whitehead . Gromit has no mouth and remains silent, communicating only through means of facial expressions and body language . Because of their widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture and British people in general.

BBC News called them "some of the best-known and best-loved stars to come out of the UK". [1] Icons has said they have done "more to improve the image of the English world-wide than any officially appointed ambassadors". [2] The films have received critical acclaim, with three of the short films, A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave (1995), having 100% positive ratings on the aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes , and the feature film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), having a 95% rating. The feature film is also the second highest-grossing stop motion animated film ever , only behind Chicken Run , another Nick Park creation. [3] Wallace and Gromit spearhead the fundraising for two children's charities, Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation, which supports children's hospices and hospitals in the United Kingdom, and Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity .

Contents 12 External links History The first short film, A Grand Day Out , was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1990, but lost to Creature Comforts , another animated creation of Nick Park. The short films The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave followed. The full-length feature The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was released in 2005. The latter three each earned Academy Awards. In January 2007, a five film deal with DreamWorks and Aardman fell through after only three films, due to creative differences, as well as the box office failure of Flushed Away . Park said later that DreamWorks executives wanted to Americanise the very British Wallace and Gromit after test screenings, which would have tarnished some of the duo's nostalgic charm. A Matter of Loaf and Death was Nick Park 's first production since the end of the DreamWorks deal. It was the most watched television programme in the UK in 2008. [4] A Matter of Loaf and Death won the 2008 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010.

[5] In 2013, Peter Lord stated that there were no plans at the moment for a new short film, and Nick Park announced in the following year that the declining health of Wallace's voice actor, Peter Sallis , had the possibility of preventing any future films despite the availability of Ben Whitehead. [6] Overview Creator Nick Park with his characters in 2005. Wallace Voiced by Peter Sallis (until 2011), and Ben Whitehead (in 2009 and since 2011) in Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures and Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels , [7] commercials and apps. Wallace can usually be found wearing a white shirt, brown wool trousers, a green knitted pullover , and a red tie. He is best known for his love of cheese, especially Wensleydale , [8] and crackers . His birthday is 7 August. The thought of Lancashire hotpot keeps him going in a crisis. He enjoys tea, and on special occasions a little Bordeaux red .

He reads the Morning, Afternoon and Evening Post, and lives at 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan , along with his dog Gromit. His last name is never given. Wallace is an inveterate inventor, creating elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended. He is a self-proclaimed genius, evident from his exclamation when he discovers Hutch 's borrowed skill, a talent for mechanical things. Most of Wallace's inventions look similar to the designs of W. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg , and Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of using a "sledgehammer to crack a nut." Wallace's official job varies; in A Close Shave he is a window washer. In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace runs a humane pest control service, keeping the captured creatures (nearly all of which are rabbits) in the basement of his house. In the most recent short, A Matter of Loaf and Death, he is a baker. While he has shown himself to be skilled to some degree in the businesses he creates, an unexpected flaw in the inventions he uses to assist him in his latest venture or simple bad luck often end up being his downfall.

Some of Wallace's contraptions are based on real-life inventions. For example, his method of waking up in the morning utilises a bed that tips over to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851 by Theophilus Carter . He has a kindly nature, and is perhaps a little over-optimistic. At times he can be inadvertently selfish and inconsiderate, but has a good heart and always means well. Nick Park, his creator, says: "He's a very self-contained figure. A very homely sort who doesn't mind the odd adventure." He is loosely based on Nick Park's father, [9] whom Park described in a radio interview as "an incurable tinkerer". He described one of his father's constructions, a combination beach hut and trailer, as having curtains in the windows, bookshelves on the walls, and full-sized furniture bolted to the floor. The way he dresses and his passion for cheese is based on an eccentric school teacher.

In the first photo shown on The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , it was revealed that once, when Gromit was little, Wallace had a full head of hair and a very thick mustache with muttonchops . On the photo that shows Gromit's graduation at Dogwarts, he had lost his beard, but still had a little hair, in the form of side burns just above his ears. As shown in The Wrong Trousers , he still uses a hair-dryer. In A Matter of Loaf and Death, when Wallace is talking to Gromit, a picture is seen behind Gromit of Wallace with a brown beard and brown hair. Wallace has had three love interests. The first was Wendolene Ramsbottom, [10] which ended quickly when Wendolene told Wallace that she had a calcium allergy . The second was Lady Tottington in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, whom Wallace fondly calls "Totty". In A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wallace becomes engaged to Piella Bakewell, [11] but this ended when she turned out to be a murderess who hated bakers, and was eaten by crocodiles upon trying to escape justice.

He remembers all three though, since in Musical Marvels, after the montage of his three love interests, he refers to them as "the ones that got away". Gromit "Gromit" redirects here. For the protective ring, see grommet . For the web browser, see Netscape 5 . Gromit is Wallace's pet dog and best friend. Gromit is generally more intelligent, more intuitive, and less naive than Wallace. His birthday is 12 February. [12] Gromit graduated from "Dogwarts University" ("Dogwarts" being a pun on " Hogwarts ," the wizard school from the Harry Potter books) with a double first in Engineering for Dogs. [13] He likes knitting, playing chess, reading the newspaper, tea and cooking. His prized possessions include his alarm clock, dog bone, brush, and a framed photo of himself with Wallace. He is very handy with electronic equipment and an excellent aeroplane pilot. Though this is not mentioned a lot, according to Wallace or any other person he is a beagle . [14] More often than not, he is seen as a threat to the plans of the various villains he and Wallace have encountered in their adventures.

Like his owner, Gromit has a good nature and kind heart; he is always looking out for Wallace and others. Gromit is more aware and less eccentric than Wallace, and thinks carefully before making actions. Gromit has no visible mouth and does not express himself through spoken words, but his facial expressions and body language speak volumes. Peter Hawkins originally intended to voice Gromit, but Park dropped the idea when he realised how Gromit's expressions could easily be made through small movements. [15] [16] Many critics believe that Gromit's silence makes him the perfect straight man , with a pantomime expressiveness that drew favourable comparisons to Buster Keaton . [17] He does at times make dog-like noises, such as yelps and growling. [18] Nick Park says: "We are a nation of dog-lovers and so many people have said: 'My dog looks at me just like Gromit does!'" Generally speaking Gromit's tastes are more in vogue than those of Wallace; this being one of the many ways they contrast against each other as characters.

Gromit seems to have a significant interest in encyclopaedic, classical and philosophical literature, and popular culture, including film and music. Electronics for Dogs has been a firm favourite since A Grand Day Out , and in The Wrong Trousers Gromit's bookshelves feature titles such as Kites, Sticks, Sheep, Penguins, Rockets, Bones, and Stars, while he is seen reading The Republic, by Pluto (a nod to the Disney character of the same name and a pun on Plato ) and Crime and Punishment, by Fido Dogstoyevsky (a pun on Fyodor Dostoyevsky ). In general Wallace and Gromit is full of wordplay, but Gromit's various possessions and their recurrent use of pun have become a particular source of understated witticism.

A Matter of Loaf and Death is the best example of this, featuring: "Pup Fiction" ( Pulp Fiction ), "The Dogfather" ( The Godfather ), "Where Beagles Dare" ( Where Eagles Dare ), "Bite Club" ( Fight Club ) and "The Bone Identity" ( The Bourne Identity ) all as book titles, and "Citizen Canine" ( Citizen Kane ) as a film poster. His taste in music has been shown to cover Bach (which comes presumably as a result of being pronounced "bark"), "Poochini" (a play on Puccini ) and "McFlea" ( McFly ). Gromit also knits, and solves puzzles with ease. Sometimes, Gromit refuses to take (or simply ignores) Wallace's orders, such as in A Close Shave and Shopper 13, wherein Wallace orders him to get rid of Shaun, but Gromit does not. NASA named one of its new prototype Mars explorer robots after Gromit in 2005.

[19] On 1 April 2007, HMV announced that Gromit would stand in for Nipper for a three-month period, promoting children's DVDs in its UK stores. [20] Gromit has had one love interest: Fluffles, a poodle and pet to Piella. Fluffles does not share her mistress's hatred of bakers and joined Wallace and Gromit delivering bread at the end of A Matter of Loaf and Death, where she is seen with Gromit making a delivery, listening to " Puppy Love " (performed, according to the record cover by "Doggy Osmond"). In 2010, Empire magazine placed Gromit first in their list of "The 50 best animated movie characters".

Empire wrote that: "Gromit doesn't ever say a word, but there has never been a more expressive character (animated or otherwise) to grace our screens." [21] Location Gromit sorts the mail at his house where he hopes to find a birthday card (scene from The Wrong Trousers ) Although not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan , reinforced by an A–Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. [22] In The Wrong Trousers, Gromit picks up a letter at the Wallace and Gromit residence addressed to "62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan". [22] The address includes a postcode of WG7 7FU, though this does not match any street in Wigan, whose postcodes begin with the letters WN . [23] This address can be seen in the Cracking Contraptions episode "Shopper 13".

Wallace's accent (voiced by Peter Sallis ) comes from the Holme Valley of West Yorkshire .[ citation needed ] Near the beginning of A Matter of Loaf and Death, Wigan is referenced on the newspaper Wallace is reading, and near the end, while looking for somewhere appropriate to dispose of a bomb, Gromit sees the Yorkshire border from their home (a joke referencing the rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire). In the Cracking Contraptions episode " The Soccamatic ", Wallace says to Gromit, "How do you like my Preston North End soccamatic, Gromit?". Whether this is the team they support, or where they live, is unknown. The episode references famous English footballers of the 1950s and 60s, including Nobby Stiles (who played for Preston later in his career), Geoff Hurst , and Stanley Matthews . Both Ramsbottom and Tottington are small towns near Bury in Greater Manchester , and are the names of love interests of Wallace. The nostalgic quality of Wallace and Gromit's world has been compared to 1950s Beanotown .

[24] Production Stop motion technique The Wallace and Gromit films are shot using the stop motion animation technique. [25] After detailed storyboarding, set and plasticine model construction, the films are shot one frame at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. In common with other animation techniques, the stop motion animation in Wallace and Gromit may duplicate frames if there is little motion, and in action scenes sometimes multiple exposures per frame are used to produce a faux motion blur . Because a second of film constitutes 24 separate frames, even a short half-hour film like A Close Shave takes a great deal of time to animate. General quotes on the speed of animation of a Wallace and Gromit film put the filming rate at typically around 30 frames per day — i.e. just over one second of film is photographed for each day of production.[ dubious – discuss ]. The feature-length The Curse of the Were-Rabbit took 15 months to make. Some effects, particularly the fire, smoke, and floating bunnies in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, proved impossible to create in stop motion and were rendered by computer animation specialists, MPC film.

[26] Most models were destroyed in the 2005 Aardman studio fire , but a set from A Matter of Loaf and Death is presently on display at the At-Bristol science centre. [27] Music The music featured in every film was written by Julian Nott , a British film composer. The theme song was used to wake up astronauts aboard space shuttle mission STS-132 in May 2010. [28] It has been suggested on BBC Radio 4's PM that the theme should become the England football supporters' song, instead of the main title theme of The Great Escape .[ citation needed ] Filmography Other media Video games A Wallace and Gromit interactive CD-ROM game from 1996, named Wallace & Gromit Fun Pack, was released for the PC , containing the Crackin' Compendium with three mini games based on the three original animated shorts as well as brief video clips. The other program in the Fun Pack the Customise-O-Matic contained wallpapers, screen savers, and sounds that could be assigned as system sounds.

[47] A sequel Fun Pack 2 was released in 2000 featuring enhanced graphics and two new games as well as a remake of the Great Train Game. The characters were associated with a 144-issue fortnightly digest called Techno Quest, published by Eaglemoss Publications starting in 1997. It was designed to get children interested in science and technology. [48] In 1997 an animated screensaver themed video game entitled Wallace & Gromit Cracking Animator was released. Screensaver games were made by Dibase. [49] Players could create their own multimedia animations through the collation of things like sound effects, sets, characters, and props. Players could manipulate the facial movements of characters in order to synchorise their expressions with dialogue. [50] Players could chose to make their finished creation their screensaver, or choose one of the premade screensaver games. [51] The manual can be found at the British Museum. [52] The Mail on Sunday deemed the program "disappointing". [53] Meanwhile, The Boston Herald offered a rating of 2.5 stars, noting that creativity is limited.

[54] In September 2003, Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo was released for the PlayStation 2 , Xbox , Nintendo GameCube , and Microsoft Windows . [55] This separate story sees the duo take on Feathers McGraw (of The Wrong Trousers) again. Still obsessed with diamonds, he escapes from the penguin enclosure of West Wallaby Zoo, where he was "imprisoned" at the end of The Wrong Trousers, and takes over the entire zoo, kidnapping young animals and forcing their parents to work for him, helping him turn the zoo into a diamond mine. [55] Wallace and Gromit, meanwhile, have adopted one of the zoo's baby polar bears, named Archie. As they go to visit the zoo to celebrate his birthday, they find it closed. A quick spot of inventing back at the house, and they prepare to embark on their latest adventure. Hiding inside a giant wooden penguin, a parody of the famous Trojan Horse , they infiltrate the zoo, and set about rescuing the animals and undoing Feathers' work.

In 2005, a video game of The Curse of The Were-Rabbit was released for PlayStation 2 and Xbox , following the plot of the film as Wallace and Gromit work as vermin-catchers, protecting customers' vegetable gardens from rabbits, using a "BunGun". [56] Gameplay for the Project Zoo involve players exclusively controlling Gromit, as Wallace functions as a helper non-player character , but in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, gameplay shifts between the two, and includes two-player cooperative play. [57] Both games were developed by Frontier Developments with the assistance of Aardman, with Peter Sallis reprising his role as Wallace. Project Zoo was published by BAM! Entertainment , while The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was published by Konami . [57] In July 2008, developer Telltale Games announced a new series of episodic video games based on the characters, called Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures . [58] The first episode in Grand Adventures, "Fright of the Bumblebees", was released on 23 March 2009.

[59] The second episode, "The Last Resort", was released on 5 May 2009. [60] Two more episodes, "Muzzled!" and "The Bogey Man" were released in later 2009. The four episodes have separately been released on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 . Comic British publisher Titan Magazines started producing a monthly Wallace and Gromit comic after the debut of Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The characters still run Anti-Pesto, and both Shaun and Feathers McGraw have appeared in the comic. [61] A comic based on the spin-off series, Shaun the Sheep , is being published, also by Titan Magazines. The first issue was released on 29 March 2007. The two characters appeared in the monthly BeanoMAX comic until its closure in June 2013, and now appear every four weeks in The Beano . [62] They are heavily featured in 'Aardmag', the free online magazine that is unofficial but supported by Aardman Animations.

[63] Nick Park guest-edited the 70th birthday issue of The Beano weekly, and so this issue contained numerous Wallace and Gromit references. [64] On 17 May 2010, they began appearing daily in The Sun . [65] It is credited to Titan and Aardman, with scripts written by Richy Chandler, Robert Etherington, Mike Garley, Ned Hartley, Rik Hoskin, David Leach, Luke Paton, J.P. Rutter, Rona Simpson and Gordon Volke, art by Sylvia Bennion, Jay Clarke, Jimmy Hansen, Viv Heath, Mychailo Kazybrid and Brian Williamson. It replaced George and Lynne. A graphic novel compiling all 311 daily strips was released on 8 October 2013, and a second volume is set to follow in October 2014. [66] The newspaper strip ended on 27 October 2013. The comic is available as a series of apps on iPod Touch and iPhone . Theatre In November 1997 the characters appeared in a play called Wallace And Gromit™ Alive On Stage In A Grand Night Out.

[67] Cast and characters Sim Evan-Jones Promotional appearances Wallace and Gromit appeared in the Christmas television idents for BBC One, having appeared in the BBC Two Christmas idents in 1995. In 2003, Aardman produced a cinematic commercial for the Renault Kangoo starring Wallace and Gromit. The ad played in front of several summer blockbusters in top British cinemas. The commercial, entitled "The Kangoo-matic", was Wallace and Gromit's first advertisement. Later Wallace and Gromit commercials were made for Jacob's Cream Crackers , energy supplier Npower and beverage PG Tips . The characters also appeared in a commercial for Children In Need in 2009, as well as in the Christmas advert for Marks and Spencer . The duo were used to promote a Harvey Nichols store that opened in Bristol (where Aardman is based) in 2008. The pictures show them, and Lady Tottington from The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, wearing designer clothes and items.

[68] They were used to prevent a Wensleydale cheese factory from shutting down because of financial difficulties after a member of staff came up with the idea of using Wallace and Gromit as mascots, as Wensleydale is one of Wallace's favourite cheeses. [69] [70] On 28 March 2009, The Science Museum in London opened an exhibition called "Wallace & Gromit present a World of Cracking Ideas." The family-oriented show, open until 1 November 2009, [71] hoped to inspire children to be inventive. [72] Wallace and Gromit were featured in many exhibition-exclusive videos, as well as one announcing the opening of the exhibition. Wallace and Gromit appeared in a one-minute special for the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II called Jubilee Bunt-a-thon . [74] In 2012, Wallace and Gromit featured on an advert saying "Inventing For Britain" which was part of a poster campaign to promote British trade and business aboard in the year they hosted the Olympics.

In 2013, sculptures of Gromit went on display in Bristol, many decorated by famous artists; they were auctioned off in October 2013 in aid of the Wallace and Gromit Foundation charity and raised over £2 million. In August 2012, they presented an edition of The BBC Proms , Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels , as Prom 20 of the 2012 season. [7] Because of its popularity, Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels became a full touring show in 2013. It premièred at The Plenary in Melbourne , Australia on 9 February 2013. It was performed at other venues throughout 2013, with A Matter of Loaf and Death screened at each performance. [75] In 2013 and 2014 the pair appeared in a nationwide TV, press and cinema campaign promoting the British government's "Holidays at Home are Great" directive, called Wallace & Gromit's Great UK Adventure.

[76] The TV ad follows the mischief that ensues when Wallace attempts to fire the pair abroad from one of his inventions, while Gromit tries in vain to show him how much there is to see and do in the UK. Produced in partnership between Aardman Animations and VisitEngland , the campaign featured a series of animated postcards documenting their trip. Charity Wallace and Gromit spearhead the fundraising for two children's charities, [77] Wallace & Gromit's Children's Foundation, [78] which supports children's hospices and hospitals in the United Kingdom, and Wallace and Gromit's Grand Appeal, [79] the Bristol Children's Hospital Charity . In July 2013, 80 giant fibreglass decorated sculptures of Gromit were distributed around Bristol as part of a Nick Park-inspired project to raise funds for the charity. The project is named Gromit Unleashed and sculptures were decorated by a range of artists and celebrities, including Joanna Lumley , Sir Peter Blake , Trevor Baylis and Jools Holland . [80] In 2015 a similar event took place featuring Shaun the Sheep sculptures.

Spin offs Shaun the sheep (2007-present) In 2007 Shaun received his own tv series In the series he lives with his flock at Mossy Bottom Farm, a traditional small northern English farm. In each episode, their latest attempt to add excitement to their dull mundane life as livestock somehow snowballs into a fantastic sitcom -style escapade, most often with the help of their fascination with human doings and devices. This usually brings them into conflict—and often into partnership—with the farm sheepdog Bitzer, while they all are simultaneously trying to avoid discovery by the Farmer. Following the success of the series two sub series was created Mossy Bottom Shorts and Championsheeps, a short film The Farmer's Llamas and two Feature films . Timmy Time (2009-2012) In 2009 Timmy also received his own tv series In the series, Timmy and his friends [81] have to learn to share, make friends and accept their mistakes. [82] They are supervised by two teachers, Harriet the Heron and Osbourne the Owl. The show is aimed at pre-school aged children which the company described as "a natural step for Aardman".

[83] two short films were created Timmy's Christmas surprise and Timmy's seaside rescued. References Email marketing and content: The Wallace and Gromit of online engagement — Winbox / Marc Woodland West Wallaby Street may be somewhere in Wigan, but the spiritual home of Wallace and Gromit (and, if we’re being pedantic, the actual home) is in Aardman Animations’ Bristol studio, not a million miles from our office. The eccentric inventor and his long-suffering genius dog are effective characters in their own right, but it’s the two of them together that make a classic - and you could say the same for what we do at Winbox. Your content is the Wallace - it’s unique, it’s brilliant, and it has a lot to offer the world, but it doesn’t exactly get things done by itself. Our email marketing is the Gromit - dependable, professional, and filling in the little flaws that get missed in between big ideas, but it has nothing to do without you. The parallels don’t stop there, either… Never be afraid to re-use Wallace’s inventions are always dual purpose, at the very least.

An automatic porridge dispenser loaded with soap makes cleaning high windows a doddle, and it comes in handy in a chase scene to boot. Once you’ve gone to the trouble of making something, it pays to repurpose. If you’ve written some great blog posts or information pages for your website, don’t bury them in an archive that’ll never be read - bring them back as email content . Be distinctive What do Wallace and Gromit actually do for a living? Whatever their inventions enable. They’ve been window-cleaners, bakers and pest controllers: every time, they deliver a service in their own inimitable style. It ain’t what they do that counts, it’s the way that they do it. Consumers are more likely to remember a brand than a channel - if the content’s unique, it’ll stand out. It just needs delivering, and email’s a great way to do it. Beats throwing loaves into letterboxes. Have a plan in place Have a plan, with a goal, and work towards it, and you can do great things: you might even build a rocket in a weekend . Your content marketing plan might not be quite so… shall we say ‘idiosyncratic’...

but it should still be SMART in its own right. Identify your goals , find ways to meet them, and have some way of measuring your success - ideally something a little more precise than “escape from coin-operated robot without losing cheese.” Embrace technology It’s amazing what you can do with the right tools and a spot of know-how. Almost anything can be automated , including your email marketing campaign , even if not everything should be. Automation can save labour on routine tasks, like walking the dog or welcoming your new clients, but you should be careful who sets the controls. Your email marketing probably won’t drag you halfway across town for a jewellery heist , but things can still go wrong . “Don’t panic… everything’s under control!” In the event that the Wensleydale does hit the fan, you might just need someone else to come in and save the day. Swinging in on an anvil and taking out a cyber-dog isn’t quite in Marc’s remit, but he does look good in a wooly jumper, and he definitely knows his way around the controls… So. Content and marketing. They’re like cheese and crackers. You just wouldn’t have one without the other.

If you’re missing the crunchy base for your cracking dairy comestible, you don’t need to go all the way to the moon for help. Have a look at our services for more info . 62 West Wallaby Street | Aardman Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia 62 West Wallaby Street Share 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, Lancashire is fictitious the home of Wallace and Gromit . Although the town is real, the address is not. In The Wrong Trousers , the pile of letters Gromit picks up while looking for birthday cards sports the postcode of WG7 7FU, although a check of the Royal Mail's Postcodes Online service fails to find the corresponding West Wallaby Street address. Furthermore, Wigan postcodes begin with WN and not WG, although this could be a reference to Wallace and Gromits' names. In fact, WN7 is the postcode area for nearby Leigh. At the beginning of the feature-length film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, when Wallace and Gromit are getting into their Anti-Pesto van, Wallace is seen pressing the ignition start button.

In this shot, "A-Z Wigan" can be seen on the dashboard, further proof that the duo live in the town. Wallace (Wallace and Gromit) | Heroes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Wallace (Wallace and Gromit) Survival in space, inventing and Chef skills Hobbies Inventing with his canine companion . Goals To bring cheese from the moon (A Grand Day Out) To capture Feathers McGraw and take him into custody (The Wrong Trousers) To stop Preston from turning sheep and Wendolene into dog meat and clear Gromit's name (A Close Shave) To get rid of his Were-Rabbit curse (The Curse of the Were-Rabbit) To escape from Piella Bakewell from killing him (A Matter of Loaf and Death) (All Succeeded) Genius “ I'm sorry Gromit, I know you're doing this for my own good. The sad fact is, I'm just crackers about cheese. „ ~ Wallace on a diet Wallace is the titular main protagonist of the Wallace and Gromit franchise. He is an inveterate inventor and Gromit 's owner and best friend.

He is voiced by Peter Sallis (1989-2010) and Ben Whitehead (2010-present). He delights in creating elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended. He is a self-proclaimed genius, evident from his exclamation when he discovers Hutch 's borrowed skill, a talent for all things mechanical. Most of Wallace's inventions look not unlike the designs of Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg; creator Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut." He enjoys a nice cup of tea or a drop of Bordeaux red for those special occasions. He reads the Morning Post, the Afternoon Post and the Evening Post and occasionally Ay-Up!, which is a parody of Hello! magazine. Both Wallace and Gromit live together at the ficticious address of 62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan, Lancashire. However, his accent as voiced by Peter Sallis is from Sallis' native Holme Valley in Yorkshire but in 2004 Wallace made a cameo appearance on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in the episode "Ticket to Rod" and he was voiced by Dwight Schultz.

It is mentioned that Wallace was born on 7th August 1959, so Wallace is approximately 55 years old. This was mentioned by Nick Park in 2009. Contents [ show ] Personality Wallace is a kind-hearted, friendly and eccentric man and an avid lover of cheese (particularly with crackers). Aside from his near-genius intellect and an expert intricate inventor which are normally quite complex for the situation he created the machine to deal with in the first place, the two more well-known of Wallace's contraptions are his rocket and the robotic walking pants he created for his best friends Gromit's birthday. But despite this, Wallace can be quite gullible at times this was most obvious when he went to the moon thinking that it was made out of cheese and actually ate a loose rock. He was also completely oblivious that his girlfriend, Piella Bakewell was a serial killer despite her more than obvious mental illness. Wallace is a man of many jobs which include exterminator, baker, landlord, window-washer and (although not technically a real job) inventor.

Wallace also possesses a more romantic side to him and has had previous relationships with people such as Piella Bakewell, Lady Tottington and Wendolene Ramsbottom . However the strongest relationship that Wallace had was with his pet dog, Gromit whom he adopted and treated like his brother since he was a puppy. However there are times when their friendship was strained which was shown when he invited the Penguin to stay and was unaware of how it was upsetting his friend and when he was left completely smitten by Piella he instantly believed that it was Gromit who bit her when in reality, she did it herself. However Wallace valued his relationship more than anything and the two have always proved their loyalty to another. Despite being eccentric, Wallace was very brave and heroic when he saved Lady Tottington from Victor Quartermaine (in Were-Rabbit form) and he was very dedicated to her when he protects her from the angry mob (who all thought that he was trying to hurt Totty) and from Victor again (while he was climbing up the pipe to get after Wallace).

While Wallace is mostly good-natured, when transformed into the Were-Rabbit the worst aspects of his personality appear, becoming destructive, violent and aggressive his only diet was vegetables and would do anything to get his paws on them. However when he regained control of his Were-Rabbit form, he still retained his feelings of loyalty and love to the people he cared about and in the end it broke his curse. Appearance Wallace can usually be found wearing a white shirt, brown wool trousers, green knitted pullover and a red tie. He is slender and has fair skin. When he was younger, he had brown hair and a moustache but when he got older, he had a tuft of hair when he was in a picture with Gromit (on his graduation from Dogwarts University) by now, Wallace is bald. He is usually seen wearing black shoes and slippers on his feet. Due to eating too much cheese, Wallace gained a bulk build, but after eating loads of vegetables (in Were-Rabbit form) he had gone a little thinner (and possibly slowing down his cheese appetite). Wallace is also seen wearing a red bow tie with white polka dots on special occasions.

He was wearing a purple pullover with baby blue, white and purple zigzag lines (knitted by Gromit) until it got shrunk by water thanks to Gromit for turning the taps on in Lady Tottington's secret garden. In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace sometimes wears an Anti-Pesto uniform and cap. In The Last Resort, after Wallace get all the things he need for the Seaside in the cellar, Wallace is wearing an orange tie, a red shirt with white stripes, and red trousers. In The Bogey Man, after Gromit makes Wallace join Prickly Thicket, Wallace is wearing an Prickly Thicket official tanktop instead of his pullover for the rest of the episode Trivia Some of Wallace's contraptions actually are based on a real-life invention. For example, Wallace's method of getting up in the morning incorporates a bed that tips over to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Theophilus Carter, and is similar to a device sold in Japan that is used to ensure a certain wake-up time. Nick Park says of Wallace: "He's a very self-contained figure.

A very homely sort who doesn't mind the odd adventure." Wallace is loosely based on Park's father, whom he described in a radio interview as "an incurable tinkerer." He described one of his father's constructions, a combination beach hut and trailer, as having curtains in the windows, bookshelves on the walls, and full-sized furniture bolted to the floor. Gallery Wallace | Wallace and Gromit Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Date of birth: 7th August 1959 Age: 55 Wallace Herbertson is an inventor, main protagonist and half of the title duo of "Wallace & Gromit ". He delights in creating elaborate contraptions that often do not work as intended. He is a self-proclaimed genius, evident from his exclamation when he discovers Hutch's borrowed skill, a talent for all things mechanical. Most of Wallace's inventions look not unlike the designs of Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg; creator Nick Park has said of Wallace that all his inventions are designed around the principle of "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut". He is also very eccentric and funny, and is always willing to provide a good laugh or listen to one himself.

Wallace can usually be found wearing a white shirt, brown wool trousers, green knitted pullover and a red tie. He loves all types of cheese, but his favorite brand of all is Wensleydale , as proven in A Grand Day Out. Wallace is so obsessed with cheese that it seems he couldn't live anywhere without it, and he himself admits in The Curse of the Were Rabbit that he is simply "crackers about cheese." He is also very disappointed when his friends are shown to have a dislike of cheese, such as in A Close Shave , when his love interest Wendolene Ramsbottom said she was allergic to cheese and "couldn't stand the stuff", he ended his relationship to her. He also likes crackers, describing them as "cracking". He also likes tea in the afternoon and is shown to have a liking to toast for breakfast; he describes toast in The Wrong Trousers as "cracking" as well. The thought of Lancashire hotpot keeps him going in a crisis. He enjoys a nice cup of tea or a drop of Bordeaux red for those special occasions. He reads the Morning Post, the Afternoon Post and the Evening Post and occasionally Ay-Up!, which is a parody of Hello! magazine.

Wallace in A Grand Day Out Some of Wallace's contraptions actually are based on a real-life invention. For example, Wallace's method of getting up in the morning incorporates a bed that tips over to wake up its owner, an invention that was exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Theophilus Carter, and is similar to a device sold in Japan that is used to ensure a certain wakeup time. The jelly-toast contraption that gives him breakfast in the morning also bears a similarity to a Rube Goldberg -type machine, with the ability to do more than one thing at the same time. His versatile nature and inventor abilities have caused him to be hired for a wide variety of jobs. In A Close Shave, he was a window cleaner along with Gromit. In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, he was a pest controller, and in A Matter of Loaf and Death, he was a baker. He has a kindly nature, and is perhaps a little over-optimistic. At times he can be inadvertently selfish and inconsiderate, but always means well and has a good heart. Nick Park says of Wallace: "He's a very self-contained figure.

A very homely sort who doesn't mind the odd adventure." Wallace is loosely based on Park's father, whom he described in a radio interview as "an incurable tinkerer." He described one of his father's constructions, a combination of a beach hut and trailer, having curtains in the windows, bookshelves on the walls, and full-sized furniture bolted to the floor. Wallace as he appeared in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. In the first photo shown on The Curse of the Were-Rabbit , it was revealed that once, when Gromit was little, Wallace had much hair and moustache and, on the photo that shows Gromit's graduation from "Dogwarts University", Wallace had lost his moustache, but still had a little hair. The reason behind Wallace's loss of hair is unknown. In A Matter of Loaf and Death , when Wallace is talking to Gromit, a picture is seen behind Gromit of Wallace with a brown moustache and brown hair. Both Wallace and Gromit live together at the ficticious address of 62 West Wallaby Street , Wigan, Lancashire.

However, his accent as voiced by Peter Sallis is from Sallis' native Holme Valley in Yorkshire but in 2007, Wallace made a cameo appearance on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in the episode "Ticket to Rod" and he was voiced by Dwight Schultz . In the National Trust's A Jubilee Bunt-a-thon short film, all games except Project Zoo, and Wallace And Gromit's Musical Marvels At The Proms, he was voiced by Aardman Team Member, Ben Whitehead . In Project Zoo, Wallace is voiced by Peter Sallis. Contents Add a photo to this gallery Trivia Wallace was originally a postman named, Jerry, but Nick Park felt the name did not fit with Gromit . Wallace has a different look in A Grand Day Out, his top of his head is smaller, bigger ears and his mouth is not so wide. In 2009, Nick Park said Wallace is born on the 7th August 1959, So Wallace is currently 57 Years old.

In Season 1 Episode 2 of Rex The Runt, Wallace is a cameo as a window cleaner, cleaning rex's window, before being knocked down by rex This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors) . Wardrobe Wallace's usual day clothes is a green knitted pullover, a white shirt, brown colored trousers and red tie. In " Curse of the Were-Rabbit ", Wallace is sometimes wearing the Anti-Pesto uniform and cap. In " The Last Resort ", after Wallace gets all the things he need for the Seaside in the cellar, Wallace is wearing an orange tie, a red shirt with white stripes, and red trousers. In " The Bogey Man ", after Gromit makes Wallace join Prickly Thicket, Wallace is wearing an Prickly Thicket official tank top instead of his pullover for the rest of the episode. Quotes

Question: Which street in Wigan is the home of Wallace and Gromit?
Answer: West Wallaby Street